What’s to be done about users giving false or inaccurate localities for for observations? Surely doing this should be disallowed as it is a form if fraud.

Sensitive species (by SA law) are automatically obscured. It work very well in SA where there are millions of plants being moved illegally. The second point is that most newer GPS models now can work from the European and Russian and several other systems in addition to the US system. There should n…

[image] stilbaai_herbarium: Some of my obs close to the sea are now suddenly in the sea. This can also depend on the accuracy of the coastline on the basemap you are viewing against.

If it has been auto-obscured by iNat the location is random within the square. One of the bulbs planted in my garden is swimming out in the middle of False Bay.

This is kind of the way my observations are. Sometimes I will go on a trip and not upload until I get home, and my camera doesn’t have location the way it does time. So if it’s a place I’m not sure about, the circle will be wider and less specific. Simply because I DON’T know exactly where the organ…

My phone does this!! My camera does not. If I’m out and use my phone for an organism I wasn’t expecting to run into, it will always be perfectly location specific. But my camera doesn’t have this, so those observations will be a little broader.

[image] its_micah_bson: But my camera doesn’t have this, so those observations will be a little broader. Here’s the method I use to get accurate location data for my photos while in the field:

It is important that the location is for the bird. Once you upload it on iNat, you can edit it and move the point 100-200 metres etc. and then add the uncertainty from that point.

If you want to geotag rare/protected plants with the appropriate 100m or 1km grid (to keep data scientifically sound - not locating orchids in the ocean or the wrong mountain range), you can’t: for some undisclosed reason, iNat only allows either 0.2° inaccuracy (a ~20km grid at my latitude, a hundr…

[image] GeolTel: iNat only allows either 0.2° inaccuracy (a ~20km grid at my latitude, a hundred times too coarse for many uses), or exact pinpointing [image] GeolTel: Due to such shortcomings, you have to degrade the coordinates Just to be clear, the iNat 0.2° obscuration system does …

[image] PdFuenteB: Sometimes you want an observation to appear on a local project, but obscuring it makes it appear on another municipality or even country if the observation is close to the border I’d be interested to see some examples (if you want to share them privately that would be fine)…

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Here’s the method I use to get accurate location data for my photos while in the field:

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